Memory phrase for the character: 陰

陰

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Meaning

shadow, negative = Yin(female)

Pronunciation

 IN
kage

Explanation

 Left: hill 阝, right: now 今 (lid and corner フ) and: fog/mist 云 (cf. cloud 雲)

Mnemonic
 
The hill is now in the fog, thus in the shadow.

Radicals

阝 hillThe radical kozato shows a hill. 阝 and is always on the left side of a kanji. (Please note that rather similar radical oozato ⻏ is always on the right sight of the kanji and means village.)
今 now
云 fog云 has the meaning "fog" only in Chinese. This original meaning is still visible in: cloud 雲. In Japanese it has the meaning to say/speak 云. For "fog" itself the character: 霧 (MU, kiri) is used.
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 Vocabulary

陰謀論 いんぼうろん  conspiracy theory
木陰 こかげ  Shade, tree shadow
日陰 ひかげ  shadow
陰 かげ  shade, shadow, other side
陰気 いんき  gloom, melancholy

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